December 13, 2011

HTC Rhyme battery test now over, check out the results [TEST]

The HTC Rhyme is now done running laps on our battery test tracks
and we bet you are eager to find out how it did. After all, endurance
is as important as it gets when you are talking about a droid that aims
to win the hearts of the female users out there.
Coming with a 1600 mAh battery and a 3.7″ WVGA screen, the HTC Rhyme
seems well prepared for our test. Sure it’s not the juiciest of
batteries we have seen since we started the new test, but it’s got one
of the smallest displays so far.
As per the tradition, talk time test was first and the HTC Rhyme went
off to a pretty good start. The smartphone managed 8 hours and 48
minutes of 3G calls before it eventually gave up and powered down.
That’s the fourth best achievement we’ve seen to date and given that
screen size doesn’t count in this test was making good promises for the
overall result.
The second trial was web browsing and we were still feeling positive
about the Rhyme prospects after it ended. It endured 5 hours and 8
minutes of our automated script that refreshes a Flash-less webpage
every 10 seconds, which as you can see it, ranks it somewhere in the
middle of the pack. Still a good and a great achievement average very
good performance, right?
Well, not so fast. Video playback came in last and with its
achievement of 5 hours and 23 minutes, the Rhyme managed a dismal 12th
place out of 14 smartphones tested.
So, with the individual test results somewhat of a mixed bag, we
didn’t really know what to expect from the HTC Rhyme in the final,
overall usage test. As it turned out its performance is about average
and the Rhyme got an endurance score of 39h. So if you are to do an hour
of talk time, video playback and web browsing per day, you’d need to
charge your Rhyme every 39 hours.